– The streamer’s latest Nordic original will star Felix Sandman, Kit Walker Johansson, Alva Bratt and Nora Rios in a four-part psychological thriller set on a hiking trip gone fatally wrong
Actor Felix Sandman (© Arkland)
Prime Video has greenlit Sarek, a four-part Swedish psychological thriller based on Ulf Kvensler’s award-winning debut novel of the same name. The series is currently in pre-production, with principal photography set to begin in Sweden at the end of July. The announcement was first reported by Deadline.
Set in Sweden’s Sarek National Park, the drama follows a hiking trip among friends that turns into a nightmare fuelled by fear, manipulation and conflicting truths. The story begins after a badly wounded woman is airlifted to safety and tells the police that her group fell under the control of a charismatic outsider, leading to psychological torture and death. However, when one of the presumed victims is later found alive, her version of events radically contradicts the first account.
The cast is led by Felix Sandman (Quicksand), Kit Walker Johansson (Burden of Justice), Alva Bratt (Barracuda Queens) and Nora Rios (Caliphate). Måns Herngren (The Restaurant, The Sunny Side, The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared) is attached as conceptualising director and head writer, with Amanda Högberg (Diary of a Ditched Girl, Deliver Me) and Axel Stjärne (End of Summer) serving as co-writers. Henrik Björn (Jordskott) will direct one episode.
The series is being produced by Jarowskij/Yellow Bird, part of Banijay Entertainment, together with Amazon MGM Studios. Filmpool Nord is on board as co-producer. Maida Krak is producing, whilst Elin Kvist serves as executive producer.
Kvensler’s Sarek, first published in Sweden in 2022 by Albert Bonniers Förlag, won the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award for Best Debut and was also shortlisted for the Crimetime Award and Sweden’s Book of the Year Award. International rights have been sold widely, including to publishers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Greece, Finland, Norway, Denmark, the USA and Canada.
The adaptation also marks a return to the screen for material by Kvensler, who is already an established figure in Swedish television. Before breaking through as a novelist, he worked as a screenwriter on series including The Sunny Side, The Restaurant, Molanders and The Secret of Stig Petré.
Sarek is expected to premiere exclusively on Prime Video across the Nordic region in 2027.
